The dining room pendant light is a wonderful place to make a big splash. Make this a strong focal piece and search for something you love, as if you were buying a painting for an important wall. Spring for a piece by an architect or designer you admire, as you should own this forever and take it with you if you move.
Articles
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Gaffney House Dining Room
For their weekend home in Sharon, Connecticut, architect Lynn Gaffney and her husband, Bill Backus, filled their natural wood "shack" with eBay finds and classic modern design pieces.
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Fine Finnish: Living/Dining Room
The focal point of the living/dining room is an oak table from Ikea. “We like to draw, read newspapers, sew, and invite friends over, so a generous table suits our lifestyle.” No couch…
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Page Goolrick's Favorite Buildings
It's fun asking architects what their favorite buildings are; you discover all kinds of cool buildings you didn't know existed, and also gain insight into that architect's design influences. We've…
Products
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Enfield Shaker Dining Chair
Though the residents of the last working Shaker village may have set aside their tools, you can still get your fix of elegant simplicity from the replicas produced by Shaker Workshops. The slightly…
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Adaptable Dining Table
Mixing and matching might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re deciding on a dining table, but Muuto’s mutable options allow for a fully customizable fixture. TAF…
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Divis Dining Table
A rectangular top split by supporting legs creates a surface locked in a perpetual state of tension. Stable and sturdy, the solid wood structure is available in blackstained ash…
Dwell Collections
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A Look at Dining Rooms
We enjoyed revisiting our archives to find some of our favorite examples of modern dining rooms. Some are tiny and some are fantastical, but all are rooms that we wouldn't mind breaking bread in…
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18 Dining Tables
Pull up a chair and feast on this collection of tables, prepared using only the freshest ingredients from our archives.
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Room & Board Finds
Last week I took a little bus trip down to San Francisco's Design District to have a peek at what's new, and fairly new, from mod furniture purveyor Room & Board. I met up with Joe Darling who…
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Establishing the right home lighting, especially in the dining room, is an essential part of family dining and entertaining. If the light is too low, you strain to see the menu and the food on your plate. It's so important to find that right balance of light.
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